Charles Graner, one of the soldiers at the center of the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal has been found guilty of all charges bought against him. The Jury took less than 5 hours to return it's verdict.   Graner faces up to 17 years in jail for his crimes....and I hope he gets the max.  He's a jackass of the highest order, he bought shame upon the good names of many US servicemembers.  You're going down, Graner.  I, and a good many of the American public, am rejoicing. ...

I'm having a rough afternoon. My nerves are shot. My husband left for Texas this morning, to transfer a prisoner from his jail here to another jail down there. He flew on a civilian flight, and he flew in civilian clothes....and he also flew armed with his government issue Beretta 9mm pistol strapped to his hip. I was on eggshells until he called me to let me know they got there safely. Then I was on eggshells again this afternoon - it snowed here, and a decent amount too.  S...

Today was my first day working in Military Justice, and so far it's gone very well.  I familiarized myself with the Continuity Binders and the office in general, read through the past Article 15 file to see what the case load has been like in the past, created some letters of notification for 2 current cases and one adjudicated case, and witnessed a will.  I also found out that I'll get to liase officially with my husband on some cases....not sure if I like that or not yet. B...

Well, I decided that I needed to get out of the house.  I don't want to go back to work because of all the upcoming stuff I have going on....surgeries, deployments etc etc.  I cannot ask an employer to let me make my own hours; that's just not fair.  But, I don't want to sit at home the whole time either, I need to start working on some kind of social network before D buggers off to parts unknown and leaves me all alone again. The answer?  Volunteering.  I happend to ...

I dunno if any of you have managed to see the premier of the latest 'Surreal Life' series on VH1.....but if you're easily disturbed, I wouldn't recommend that you do. Those of you with a slightly warped sense of humor might get a pretty big laugh out of it. You see, Vern Troyer of 'Mini Me' fame is in it.  In the first episode (which I caught on Sunday but had to watch again tonight because it was so....disturbing but funny at the same time) he gets drunk.  I mean rolling, fallin...

I was lacking anything else constructive to do (well, that's not entirely true but that's what I'm going to tell y'all) so I Googled my screen name this morning. Link Yeah...not a really good thing to have done. My illusion of being the only Dharmagirl on the planet were shattered.  There are a few of us...and some of us seem to be into some pretty kinky stuff. There's the Dharmagirl who's listed herself in a adult personal ad site.  Looking at this one was scary at first b...

If you were a shoe, what kind of shoe would you be?  If you could be any shoe at all, what kind of shoe would you LIKE to be? I think that I'd be a Birkenstock clog.  Sturdy, comfortable, practical, functional....kind of hippie-ish, a little funky....but not too much. Now if I could be ANY shoe....I'd have to be a red stiletto.  Pointy toes, sexy as all get out (which is pretty dang sexy, lemme tell ya)...a real siren super-hot-momma kinda shoe. So...what&n...

I'd like to share this passage from 'A Path With Heart' by Jack Kornfield with you.  I found it earlier.  I wasn't really looking for it, in fact it was just in the next page of the book I'm currently reading.  I'm a firm believer in the universe giving or telling us what we need (or need to know) when we need it: ' A sign in a Las Vegas casino aptly says 'You must be present to win'.......To come into the present means to experience whatever is here and now.  Most of us h...

But I'm not.  I'm plain fucking miserable. And I know why. I've always had the ability to mentally compartmentalize things.  I create little boxes for things, and I stuff them into their boxes and mentally hold the lid shut until whatever's inside stops struggling to get out and I can move on to the next thing. I had managed to do this to my feelings of disappointment of not going to England. My brother's visit will make that box fling its lid wide open and all the collecti...

All at once I realized just what kind of an impact my other half leaving again is going to have on my family... .....and myself. All at once I have become acutely aware of the impermanence of everything.....  ......and that we are all destined to die one day. All at once I have realized how much time has gone by without my really seeing it pass. All at once I have become aware that I am seriously lacking in some aspects of my personality. All at once I have realized what...

...just got his report card back today. The first report card since he got diagnosed with ADD and medicated with Concerta. This boy has bought every single one of his subjects up at least one grade.  A couple of subjects he did outstandingly well in and went from a 'C' to an 'A'. This is the boy that I've watched grow and change in the past couple of months.  I've watched him blossom and come into his own.  He's no longer an angry, frustrated, tightly wound child.......

I just saw this and I simply cannot believe it. Link A man is suing 'Fear Factor' over an episode where contestants had to eat dead rats. Is the man a contestant, suing because the rat made him ill?  No. He's a viewer.  He's suing because he says the episode made him vomit, get light headed and dizzy and adversly affected his blood pressure.  He says he was traumatized. Give me a freakin' break.  Please. Hmm....how about, instead of filing suit, he turn the c...

Isn't it funny how wives will sometimes assume that they know what their husband's want, only to find out that what they assumed they want isn't what they really want at all? I thought that my husband had a 'thing' for long hair.  Hair that's longer than mine, anyway.  So, I've been growing mine out.  I've managed to get it to about jaw length, and I can style it in this flip-y shag style if I take the time to dry it and curl it. We were sitting in the barber shop the other ...

I finally found something my dachshund won't eat! Salt and vinegar flavor Pringles!  He pestered me for some earlier (and by that I mean he sat up and begged until i gave in ), so I gave him a couple.   He took them in his little mouth and trotted off to the corner where his food bowl is (he prefers to take all his treats over there for some reason).  He dropped them, sniffed them, sneezed 4 times in a row.....took a quick lick and then walked away.  I'm sitting here ...

Dubya's coming to my town today. (I knew about this a couple of days ago but wasn't really at liberty to tell anyone...but it's all over the local papers this morning and I now have  permission to write about it...) A few people have ben selected to go out on the flightline to meet him - but it's raining cats and dogs (been that way all night) so I dunno how long the 'grab and grin' will last in such crappy weather.  D's working out on the flightline for this auspicious ...